I know he has said that proprietary software is immoral, but I don't ever recall him say it about the BSD licenses (and would be very surprissed if he did). In fact, I'm almost certain the fsf website lists that as a "good" free license (the modern versions of it, the older ones had some ambiguity and even BSD folks don't use those any more).

I'm very late to this I know, but I usually try to do at least a little proofreading before putting things up for RMS. Due to limited time, I don't catch everything, but I do try (as does RMS). When someone notices a typo or mistake on anything on stallman.org, they can email RMS (or me) and I try to fix it ASAP. Is that a perferct system, probably not, but it is better than what a lot of people and places do.

Wow, if that's the criteria, I think I had a datacenter in my office when I was at NASA just based on the machines we used for builds and tests of our software.

No mod points so I'll just have to reply to say that you sir, could not be more right. Nothing in the DC area that is anything like a Garbage Plate.

Everyone is always just a few clicks away from being caught in a phishing scam. In fact, wouldn't it be closer to say that everyone is just one click away (the link from their email)?

Some of us still use console based email clients (yay pine) so we're actually a a long, painful process involving config files and remembering how to start firefox on the local machine instead of the remote one along with a few clicks away from these scams. Usually by that point I don't even care what the link is anymore so no threat of clicking it.

I think we should call this 'security through frustration.'.

I'm not sure I understand the overwhelmingly negative reaction to javascript in pdf files. I realize that there is a danger in allowing executable content in files (and it is arguable whether or not the danger is worth it) but I do not understand why so many people don't seem to understand that there are at least possible benefits to it.

I used to make slides for talks using LaTeX. There are great ways to include animations directly in the pdf that use javascript. I always had far less trouble getting my animations to play than other people at conferences I went to because acrobat reader was all I needed and it is nearly always there. And for the record, the animations were things I really needed since they showed output from simulations.

I've also seen lots of forms that do some math or validation. How do people think that happens?

Again, I think we need to be very careful about executable code but that doesn't mean there are no possible good uses for it.